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Submitted by: Sara Jones, Jenny Martinez, & Christie MedinaFlorida State University Higher

Education Program

MyEU A Portal for Ellingsburg A Portal for Ellingsburg

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A portal brings personalized and specific information users want right to their fingertips. This way students, faculty, & staff do not have to navigate an extensive university website.

Having access to technology increases the communication between faculty and students and also increases the proliferation of learner communities (1).

A personalized service portal decreases the distance between students, faculty, and university services while increasing a sense of community (1).

Reasoning Channels Teams Feedback

Tech-based systems Organization Literature Good Practices

Portal

Students Faculty Staff



The portal is specifically designed to meet the needs of students, faculty, and staff of Ellingsburg University. These are the people who will benefit the most from a centralized, personalized system.

WebMail

MyCourses

CourseCatalogue

Campus Events

Admissions/Registrar

Blackboard

Housing

HealthServices

Library

My Calendar

EU D.S.A.

Financial Aid

PORTAL

STUDENTS



Vital information that all students must know will be automatically present on their personalized portal. These administrative channels are:Admissions/RegistrarEU Division of

Student AffairsMy Courses

All of the specific channels provide a means to assist students from the admissions process, through graduation, and even as alumni. However, students will still be able to display the information that is pertinent to them.

Reasoning for Portal Channels



WebMail

EmployeeProfile

HumanResources

Blackboard

DepartmentContacts

DepartmentalInformation

Courses Teaching

PORTAL

FACULTY



Provides awareness of departmental initiatives and announcements.

Allow easy access to manage information needed to teach courses.

Encourage collaboration between faculty and departments.

Access to payroll and compensation, training and development, and personal information.




WebMail

EmployeeProfile

HumanResources

ProfessionalDevelopment

BudgetaryInformation

DepartmentContacts

PORTAL

STAFF



Provides awareness of departmental initiatives and announcements.

Encourage partnership between departments.

Access to payroll and compensation, training and development, and personal information.




Housing- Student body is primarily residential

Financial Aid- Their secure system needs to communicate with the portal

Department of Finance & Administration- The business services aspect of the university

Admissions/Registrar- Their secure system needs to communicate with the portal and integral student record keeping


Departmental Representation


Human Resources- Their secure system needs to communicate with the portal and integral employee record keeping

University Relations- Responsible for the university public relations

Branding & Marketing - Create the look of the portal to maintain consistency of university mission


Departmental Representation


End-user GroupsWe will seek equal representation from students, faculty, and staff to evaluate our progress at each stage of the portal development.

After developing a prototype we will solicit feedback from our focus and end-user groups.

End-users will be given evaluations to further explain what they feel needs to be changed, deleted, or added to the prototype.



“To produce an infrastructure toolkit and framework that enables campus offices to ‘plug’ services into the portal framework and use the portal toolkit making the ‘portal’ their method of service delivery” (2).

Examples of sites that currently contain password protected information that will be accessed through a single sign-on method are: Financial Aid, Blackboard, WebMail, Human Resources, and Admissions/Registrar.



Importance of CommunicationBetween Technology-based Systems

There will be a consistent look and feel to all services thus making them easier to use.

However, our users will have the ability to customize the portal to their own needs.

There will be some standard links all students, faculty, and staff need to have (i.e. University Announcements, Campus Events, Academic Calendar)



1. Wright, R., Gorman, J., & Bernstein, R. (n.d.) MyUB: A personalized service portal. Innovation in Student Services: Planning for Models Blending High Touch/High Tech. Retrieved February 22, 2005 http://www.buffalo.edu/aboutmyub/

2. Portal project charter for August, 2000 project. (n.d). Retrieved February 22, 2005, from University of Texas-Austin Web site: http://www.utdirect.utexas.edu/utdirect/



http://www.utdirect.utexas.edu/utdirect/

http://www.utdirect.utexas.edu/utdirect/

Good Practices:University of California – Los Angeles: http://my.ucla.edu/

University of Buffalo: http://www.buffalo.edu/aboutmyub/

University of Texas - Austin: http://utdirect.utexas.edu/utdirect/



http://my.ucla.edu/

http://utdirect.utexas.edu/utdirect/

http://utdirect.utexas.edu/utdirect/

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